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Has the way enterprises gone about implementing network defenses changed over the last five or so years?

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Has the way enterprises gone about implementing network defenses changed over the last five or so years?

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Markulec: There’s clearly a maturity curve. If you talk about government, financial services and pharmaceuticals, those guys are really out there fine tuning their systems. They’ve deployed a defense-in-depth strategy; they’ve got control of all the assets on their network; they control their ingress and egress points, and they’re really looking at fine tuning their systems. What I’ve seen over the last five years is more industries, and more businesses moving along that curve to get to the point where the financial service firms are today. Even traditional businesses like manufacturing or petrochemical, about five or 10 years ago they really didn’t have a concern about cybersecurity. But now that their control systems — the SCADA networks and power grids — are all becoming IP enabled, you see those organizations really moving forward, taking big leaps in their security posture. It is good basic blocking and tackling. Identify critical assets, deploy a defense-in-depth strategy, acti

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